pinole

noun /piːˈnəʊleɪ/

1. A coarse flour made from ground toasted maize kernels, often mixed with herbs, which may be eaten by itself or incorporated into drinks.

   countable, uncountable

   But all of them also called for obscure ingredients — whole cacao beans and a toasted corn flour called pinole, for example.

Where it comes from

From Mexican Spanish pinole, from Classical Nahuatl pinolli (“flour, ground maize or chia”).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry pinole (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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